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Opinion Advice before starting a new semester, from a sixth-year senior DON’T STRIVE TO BE “COOL” OR “CHIC.” JUST BE YOURSELF AND THE REST WILL FOLLOW I struggled to fit into my floor community my freshman year. I was tight with my roommate and suitemate, but struggled to connect with other residents on the floor. All of the other guys worked out together, trekked to the dining hall as a group, played Smash Brothers as a bunch of bros, etc. I yearned — quoting the Disney icon Ariel — to “be part of their world.” Never mind the fact that I never actually just went up to one of them and asked if I could come along to dinner or hang out. I kept waiting for a nonexistent invitation and when one wasn’t received, I thought I wasn’t “cool” enough to garner it. Remem-

ber when your Hogwarts letter didn’t come on your 11th birthday? That feeling. Instead of wasting away in my room in a self-imposed pity party, I joined some clubs and the campus orchestra. The result — I formed friendships with Spartans I actually had common interests with and could be myself around.

While spending Thursday nights in orchestra rehearsal might not have earned me the image as the “cool bro” on the floor, I definitely met some of my coolest friends there — friends who would help me get through some very real times as the years passed. Being yourself in college is cool enough.

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dinning buddies together, you must also be comfortable going solo during the times when your entourage is unavailable. This not only applies to dining, but also going to class, doing laundry, studying and going to a professors’ office hours. Becoming independent is essential, especially as a freshman. On campus, you will be surrounded by people at all hours of the day and have easy access to your friends, so it’s important to start becoming comfortable doing tasks on your own. Overall, build up confidence in yourself by going solo every now and then.

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Whether they will admit it to you or not, every upperclassman’s biggest fear as a freshman was making the trek to the dining hall solo.

Back when I was a freshman, I felt eating alone was a horror show I couldn’t stomach. I kept worrying about what people would think; how I wouldn’t look cool. Reality is, no one cares about the fact that you came alone. No one is actively scanning the cafe like a vulture looking for a person sitting solo to gossip about with their friends. College is not “Mean Girls.” In fact, for the past few years now dining alone has turned into bliss — a time when I can just plug in my headphones and escape to some much needed “me” time. While I would highly encourage getting a regular group of

Yes, I was one of those unpopular kids during my first week that spent my Friday afternoon at the Career Services Building for their dropin hours, asking what job opportunities were available on campus. Five years later though, I think having a White House internship listed on my resume is a pretty cool thing. During your freshman year, everyone, down to your grandma, will harp about the importance of jobs and internships, and take it from someone who will soon graduate in this current economic climate — go to your career services appointments! Summa cum laude is not enough to garner opportunities in the current job market. Even if you’re eyeing graduate school right after you complete undergrad,

jobs and internships are a necessary way to gain experience and connections needed to navigate life after graduation. Paid internships and summer jobs can also be a great way to score some cash. Also, don’t pigeonhole yourself into a traditional four-year plan.

Looking back, I never thought I would have the experiences I did, but six internships later, here I am finishing up my sixth year of school. Experiences tend to snowball — my time in the U.S. Senate led to four summers at the Big Three auto companies as well as a semester at the White House — so don’t be afraid to keep your options and timeline open.

Opportunities especially snowball if you garner a sweet gig the summer after your freshman year. Yes, as a freshman it is possible to score a gig, despite what the naysayers tell you. Also, there are plenty of scholarships and stipends available through MSU to help support unpaid internships. Even if you sign up to work in the dining halls for extra Dairy Store money, I would highly recommend getting a job no later than your second semester of freshman year. Create little communities for yourself at MSU and branch out.

Vikram Mandelia is an MSU senior and frequent columnist for The State News For more advice on starting a new semester, be sure to pick up The State News Welcome Week Edition available Aug 28.

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“All in all, this package contains very important legislation that could change how involved women can become both in college and in the workforce.”

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Discrimination against worker contraceptive use target of legislation

BY JOSH THALL JTHALL@STATENEWS.COM

Democrats from both the state House and Senate have announced their plans for a five-bill package of legislation that will grant women greater access to contraceptives and stop employers from discriminating against women who use them.

The legislation, being put together by state Rep. Winnie Brinks (D-Grand Rapids), state Rep. Gretchen Driskell (D-Saline) and state Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr. (D-East Lansing), would reform five key ways in which the state and employers currently deal with contraceptives.

Hertel said recent studies show that 99 percent of women of childbearing age, which is considered from ages 15-44, who engage in sexual activity, will use birth control at some point in their lives.

“We don’t see people having five, six, eight kids as often as you used to; obviously people have learned about different family planning methods and are using them. And we just want to make sure all peo-

ple have access to that,” Hertel said.

The bills would prohibit employers from discriminating against women who use contraceptives and require employers to inform employees and applicants about their reproductive health coverage, Brinks said via email.

The bills would also require the state to distribute information about emergency contraception, require health facilities to have emergency contraceptives available for women being treated after a sexual assault and encourage the state to take steps toward lowering the teen pregnancy rate.

“It’s a simple matter of equality, respect and equal opportunity for women,” Brinks said via email. “No woman should face losing her job because she wants contraceptives — just as no diabetic should face losing a job taking insulin. No woman should have to face the trauma of a sexual assault without access to emergency contraceptives.”According to the Michigan Department of Community Health, funding for pregnancy prevention has fallen 91.6 percent from

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Unintended pregnancies in women between the 60% ages of 15 and 44, the childbearing age, has gone up from 44 percent in 2001 to 40% 51 percent in 2010. 2010 is the most current year data is available.

Senior so c i a l r e l ations and policy student Emily Kollaritsch, who is also a student organizer and coordinator for MSU Students United, said this package of bills is very important for women as it allows them greater control of their life.

“In order for women to be able to have a steady job or academic career it is so vitally important that they have access to birth control so that

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they are able to commit fully to their career. It also allows women to have the ability and choice to have a family when it is appropriate for them at the right time in their life,” Kollaritsch said via email.

Driskell said she thinks that if businesses are not going to cover contraceptives as a part of their health plan because of religious reasons, employers should at least be required to

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inform applicants or potential employees before they choose whether or not to work there.

“It’s expensive to have a baby, and birth control helps prevent the cost,” Driskell said. “And also having a child tends to take the woman out of the workforce and there is no guaranteed paid maternity leave here, we’re one of three industrialized countries in the world that does not have paid

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Kollaritsch said while she would hope something like this would pass, she is not confident that it will.

“I think prohibiting employe r s f r om d i sc r i m i n at i ng against women on the basis of their contraceptive use will probably not pass, given Republican representatives view on allowing ‘relig iou s f r e e dom ,’ ” K ollaritsch said via email.

“All in all, this package contains very important legislation that could change how involved wome n c a n become both in college and in the workforce,” Kollaritsch said via email.

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Kalamazoo, Mich., residents Tyler Sauer, left, and Chiante Lymon participate in a workshop on how to meet with representatives on Nov. 12, 2014 at Case Hall.

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As internships become more important for students to stay competitive in the job market after college or complete a college requirement, a legislator is working to make sure those students are legally protected from workplace sexual harassment.

Cur rent ly in Mic higa n, unpaid interns have no legal support to fight against workplace discrimination — such as sexual harassment — because they are not technically employees and thus do not have the same workplace protections as their paid counterparts.

It’s called the “Intern Loophole,” and there have been widely publicized cases in cities, such as New York City, of workplace sexual harassment cases being dismissed by judges because the interns were not paid employees.

“We wanted to make sure we were taking a proactive step here in Michigan to try and provide interns and other unpaid workers with the same level of protections as everybody else in this state,” state Sen. David Knezek (D-Dearborn Heights) said. “I think it’s an issue of treating everybody equally and it’s something that we want to get ahead of here in the state so it doesn’t negatively affect someone in the future.”

Oregon, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut, New York and Washington D.C. have adopted laws to protect unpaid interns.

Knezek introduced similar legislation last term as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives, which would

have amended the Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act to extend its protections to unpaid interns.

However, at the time expanding Elliot-Larsen protections was a hot topic in regard to the LGBT community, so Knezek knew he had to find a different route to take.

The new legislation, which Knezek said he hopes to introduce within the next month, would amend the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Act (MIOSH A) to extend its anti-discrimination protections to unpaid interns.

Knezek said they are trying to make the protections for unpaid interns as comprehensive as possible so interns are protected from the same workplace discrimination as everyone else.

“One of the ways we thought we would be able to do that is through Elliot-Larsen because there are specific mentions to race and religion and others,” Knezek said. “Through MIOSHA, it’s our belief, having worked with legal experts here in Lansing, that those same level of protections would be afforded to the interns if we are able to get this amendment, and if we are able to pass this into law.”

ASMSU’s vice president for Governmental Affairs Bryn Williams said this issue is simply a matter of updating Michigan’s laws to fit the changing culture and increasing prevalence of internships.

“This wasn’t an issue 20 years ago, because interns weren’t widely used 20 years ago,” Williams said. “Interns are wholly a new form of education that has really only come into fruition over the past decade to the extent we see it today.”

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time there are more than 100 interns in the Michigan Senate and more than 300 interns in the Michigan House of Representatives.

“So when you start realizing just how large of a role and how critical of a role these individuals can play, just in state government, the potential for a problem to arise and the need for moving quickly certainly presents itself,” Knezek said.

Alumnus and founder of the Michigan Equal Protections for Interns Coalition Matt Marks said he got involved with this issue during his internship requirement which he completed in Lansing last year at a lobbying firm.

Marks said as internships become more necessary for students, an amendment like this becomes more critical.

“It’s not like someone sat down and said, ‘Let’s not protect unpaid interns.’ That’s not what happened, but internships are becoming more popular and more needed, and as they are and more people have taken them, there have been more cases, more opportunities for this type of thing to happen,” Marks said.

Marks said it is hard to put together data to show the severity of the issue because many interns might be more willing to deal with such abuse to better their chances of future employment.

“There have been people that have come up to me and in confidence have told me they’ve been subjected to this type of stuff, but they didn’t report it because they figured if they kept their mouth shut, they would have a better chance of getting a job — and frankly, I don’t blame them necessarily,” Marks said.

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MSU Football program sets high goals for upcoming season During the team’s first practice and media event, key players and coaches discussed the team’s new motto, “Reach Higher,” and what it means for the Spartans

BY MATT ARGILLANDER MARGILLANDER@STATENEWS.COM

Coming in at No. 6 in the preseason rankings, expectations for MSU football have never been higher. Four 11-win seasons in five years, two top5 finishes in as many years and success on the recruiting trails will do that for a team.

For starters, a little more than a month after their season concluded the Spartans finished National Signing Day with the No. 22-overall recruiting class, according to 247Sports.

On top of that, on April 25 a record crowd of 48,000 showed up as the White team defeated the Green team 9-3 in MSU’s annual Spring Game.

Camp began last Saturday with a conditioning test everyone passed, including the freshmen in their first practices as Spartans.

“Well, we’re in day three of practice, the first day of shells today, so I thought things went very, very well.

(Everyone) paid a lot of attention, just getting ourselves back into football shape a little bit,” head coach Mark Dantonio said at Football Media Day on Monday. “But today a little bit more active. Things speed up a little bit for everybody. Young players are taking strides.”

REACHING HIGHER Despite their recent success, the Spartans are not satisfied. The approach to the summer, the training camps and the upcoming season has been the same — reach higher. That also just so happens to be the mantra for the 2015 season.

“We won 11 games, we ended up No. 5 in the country, we did what we did, but the fact of the matter is we lost two games ... if we win either of those games, I think we are a little farther along,” Dantonio said. “We didn’t succeed in those two games so we didn’t reach our goals, and that’s the bot-

tom line.”

Dantonio has built his team with a permanent chip on its shoulder. For a team that has every right to soak in the spotlight for a bit, there is no complacency or room for error.

“We’ve always come to work in winter workouts. We’ve always come to work in our bottom line program, summer camp, and I don’t sense any complacency at all,” Dantonio said.

“I think our guys have goals in mind, goals internally, what they want to do, and I think right now in summer camp ... I think our guys are motivated on those. Now we need to be able to stay motivated, too.”

This team is motivated by more than its championship goals. Being overlooked in the past still fuels the Spartans.

“A part of being fueled is the national championship, but we still look back on the past and understand that we have been overlooked,” fifth-year senior defensive end Shilique Calhoun said. “We can always get back to a point where people say ‘That’s just Michigan State.’ So that’s our fuel, trying to not to be the perception of the old Michigan State.”

The 2015 football team has 20 redshirt seniors. The leadership that comes with that leads to lofty goals.

Teams normally shy away from stating their expectations verbally, but this MSU team has made their goals clear — playoffs or bust.

“A benchmark for us is going to be certainly getting to the playoffs and all those type of things, that’s where our goals are,” Dantonio said. “Our seniors because they’re now into their last turn, their last three or four months here, and they understand, and I think the urgency of the situation, what has to happen and what they have to do to lead because that’s been the nature here, I think, of what we’ve tried to do.”

“We’ve had great senior leadership, and probably our seniors have always

MSU head football coach Mark Dantonio talks to the media next to the Duffy Daugherty Football Building on Aug. 8.

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had their best years. When we’ve had big years, our seniors have had their best years, and that’s a positive.”

BOYS OF THE SUMMER Despite not being able to work with the team for a majority of the summer, Dantonio knows his guys have been hard at work and it’s shown in the first few days of camp.

“I think our players worked extremely hard in our bottom line program, which is, ‘Hey, you’re getting it done or not getting it done at the end of the day,’” Dantonio said. “Got a lot of players lifting a lot of heavy weight, a lot of players running extremely well. We look like we’re in shape.”

Redshirt senior linebacker Darien Harris believes the veterans on the team went the extra mile in workouts and preparations this summer to gear up for a season where the playoffs and a national championship are ultimately the goals.

“A lot of hard work (this summer), we know that the ultimate goal is to do better than we did last year, so we went into the summer hoping that we could do some things that we didn’t do last summer. Going that extra step, going that extra mile,” Harris said. “Overall, it was a really good summer for us, the veterans, and when the freshmen came in they came in working hard, which we were really pleased to see.”

It’s that leadership from Calhoun, Harris and the other veterans that builds the foundation for success, according to Dantonio.

“I think the leadership has been very good early in this camp from our senior group, and that’s always extremely important,” Dantonio said. “I think there’s great direction within our program at the ground level, which is, again, that’s at the player level. When you have that at the player level, I

Senior starting quarterback Connor Cooks completes football drills next to the Duffy Daugherty Football Building on Aug. 8.

think that gives you an added advantage, especially in games on the field because players lead on the field.”

2014 first-team all-american and fifthyear senior Jack Allen stated that the team ran harder than they ever have before.

“All summer the o-line has been working hard, the whole team with 7-on-7s and drill work. We’ve been running a lot, I would say this summer we ran more than we have in past summers ... Wouldn’t you say Don?” Allen said, looking for reassurance from teammate and senior offensive guard Donavon Clark.

Clark concurred.

This team won’t be satisfied with past results and after a summer of hard work the Spartans will continue to put in the work to improve every day.

“If you look at our basketball program, I don’t think Coach Izzo has ever been satisfied,” Dantonio said. “I don’t think (being satisfied) is the makeup of a coach or the program, or any real program, any championship-type program or program that’s won a lot successively.”

“We’re going to come to work every day, that’s all I can tell you. We’re not going to take things for granted.”

The first game of the season takes place on Sept. 4, when the Spartans travel to Kalamazoo.

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housing projects in the downtown area, noting that the city needs people who are here throughout the whole year, as well as partial-year residents.

“You need different types of money being spent in the downtown area in order to support all the businesses,” Meadows said.

Meadows said he would also like to take on the issue of infrastructure improvement in the city. He believes there are whole neighborhoods in the city that need their sewers and water lines replaced.

The former mayor of East Lansing said his experience in council is what sets him apart from other candidates.

“My experience on City Council is one reason to vote for me. When I was mayor, generally speaking, the city moved forward,” Meadows said. “We built a lot of recreational facilities under my tenure and we had a City Council that agreed on the future of the city and were able to move forward even with a very diverse council.”

The election will take place on November 3 with three council seats up for vote.

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Mark Meadows, former state representative and mayor of East Lansing, has joined the race for East Lansing City Council. Meadows said his history working with the student community is “strong” and that if elected, he would like to pick off where he left off.

While on council from 1995 to 2006, Meadows was mayor from 1997 to 2005 and had regular meetings with ASMSU. He also held voter registration drives on campus.

“It’s very important for students

to realize they are citizens of East Lansing and they have a say in everything that goes on,” Meadows said.

Meadows said, if elected, he would like to re-instill public confidence in the way council operates, noting some of this confidence has been “eroded” since he left council.

Meadows said he would like to work on development of the corner of Grand River Avenue and Abbott Road. This area has come to be known as the Park District, the development of which has been an on-going process for council and the city as a whole for the past few years.

Meadows, who is a current member of the Sierra Club Michigan Chapter, said the Park District area of downtown is important because it is the first thing people see coming into town from the west. Meadows said the city needs a signature project in this area built from a community vision. Meadows also had other ideas for the downtown.

As a current member of the East Lansing Housing Commission, Meadows said we need a mixture of

On August 10, 3.77 inches of rain poured down on East Lansing and the surrounding area, Evan Webb, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said.

The bulk of the rain fell inside a mere three-hour period from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The weather service measures rainfall for the area at the Capital Region International Airport in DeWitt Township. Flooding was a major issue seen throughout the city due to the storm.

“Flooding was pretty wide-spread and not just isolated to East Lansing. It was due to the amount and short duration of time that the rain arrived,” Ron Lac-

asse, infrastructure administrator for the city of East Lansing, said.

Lacasse said the city’s sewers and catch basins, which are used to collect water into the sewers, can only take in so much water at once. Most of the city’s sewers and catch basins were operating at or above capacity, but extensive surface flooding was seen throughout the city.

East Lansing police Lt. Steve Gonzalez said significant f looding occurred at the intersections of Saginaw Street and Coolidge Road, as well as at Trowbridge Road and Harrison Road.

Lacasse said the city has not found any damaged infrastructure from the storm, but received about 20 to 25 calls

Traffic moves throguh a large submerged roadway August 12 on East Grand River Avenue by Milford Street under heavy flooding conditions. PHOTO: RYAN KRYSKA

reporting flooding.

One issue the city faced was the clogging of catch basins with materials from construction sites.

Trowbridge Road was flooded after catch basins were clogged with material from the Trowbridge Lofts project, according to Lacasse.

Lacasse said besides c lea r i ng c logged catch basins, there

is not much the city can do except wait for the rain to slow down when a storm such as this hits.

It was a busy day for Tom Allen, owner of Allen’s Sewer & Drain Cleaning, who said he received around 175 calls during the 48-hour period surrounding and during the storm. This is compared to the usual 10

to 14 calls Allen said his company usually receives over the same period of time.

Allen said preventative maintenance is key to stopping in-home f looding during a storm like this one. Residents should have their sewer lines cleaned once a year and use root cleaner twice a year, according to Allen.

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HUMANS OF FOLK FESTIVAL “WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE PART ABOUT GREAT LAKES FOLK FESTIVAL?”

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Oscar Tenorio-Leyva

Sue Matthews Myers

Landscape architecture and horticulture design junior

Natural fibers vendor from Midland, Mich.

“I love the meshing of culture. I like the fact that it brings together a large spectrum of people that really wouldn’t come together if it wasn’t for the festival. The art that they bring is pretty sweet. It’s exposes people to art. Living life is an art form.”

“I get to sit and do my craft and it’s like a vacation day.

It’s a lot of work, but I get to do what I love and other people admire it. It’s like, ‘wow!’ (when I) get validation for my obsession.”

Zach Power

Denise and Charlsie Cole

Street performer from Benzonia, Mich., at the Folk Festival

National Classy Ms. Sweetheart and Miss Michigan, respectively

“I’ve been writing songs about the same amount of time I’ve been playing, which started around 2002. It’s good to be able to play in front of people. I’m not the kind of musician to sit around and play at home. My favorite part is stopping people.

As they’re walking by they’ll stop and listen for a bit. It’s good to stay fresh. I like playing for people and singing and I like doing my own thing without too much restriction.”

“I love that they’re actually free and you can go and enjoy, because art should be shared with everyone,” Charlsie Cole said.

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His laugh could be heard from 50 feet away; out of sight and around the bend of the Detroit Golf Club’s patio landscaping. It was half past eight on the morning of Aug. 11 and despite the cloudy forecast, the sun was shining. His broad shoulders and eternal smile could be seen high above the crowd of 20 plus people. He gave out hugs, handshakes and pictures.

“The man is in the house!” a voice in the crowd yelled.

That man was MSU basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson.

A g roup of teenage c lub employees approached him.

“One shot of greatness for today,” Bill Cloven, outside service manager for the club, said to them.

Johnson made sure each of them snapped a selfie and then said, “take care, good luck and do good in school.”

“My hand is shaking right now. I’m not going to wash this shirt,” 18-year-old Jackson College student Josh Madison, said.

Half an hour passed as the crowd slowly dwindled into their respective golf carts. He continued to converse and sweat could be seen as he perspired under the heat.

“Do you want to get out of the sun?” Antoinette Warr, the fundraiser’s chair, said.

“No I’m fine,” he said.

Warr was handed a microphone. She spoke through the speaker’s calming volume, welcoming Earvin “Magic” Johnson.

The MSU Black Alumni Association hosted the fundraiser to raise scholarship mon-

ey for its new Earvin “Magic” Johnson MSUBA endowment fund and its expendable fund.

The funds are aimed at enhancing and retaining educational opportunities for future and current MSU students.

“Thank you for what you’re doing and of course you know it’s going to a great cause,” Johnson said. “For me it is great to see all these fellow Spartans, all my friends, just have a great time.”

First Vice President of the MSUBA, Jeanette Patterson, said the fundraiser was very emotional for her.

“I’ve worked enough that I know how students may have to leave Michigan State because they cannot afford the tuition and other expenses of being a student,” Patterson said. “And that to me is a terrible thing that you cannot focus on your education because you are worried about the financial aspect of it.”

The golf outing was attended by prestigious Spartans: head basketball coach Tom Izzo and assistant Dwayne Stephens, MSU Hall of Fame member and 1979 NCAA National Champion Greg Kelser, NFL sports agent and 1982-1986 MSU football player Paul Bobbitt, 1966-1970 MSU football player Jack Pitts and many more.

“Michigan State, at least for me, is the gift that keeps on giving,” Kelser said. “I made my decision to go to Michigan State 40 years ago and I am still reaping the benefits.”

“This is the first one, we definitely appreciate Magic representing the scholarship and MSU,” Bobbitt said. “We definitely support all causes. What this means to me is that kids are getting a better opportunity to complete their education.”

Former MSUBA scholarship recipients, Sier-

ra Scott and Kenny Williams, both said MSUBA has become a family and support group for them at MSU. The two graduated from Cass Technical High School in Detroit.

With a break in the action at the golf club, I headed 10 miles southeast to Cass Tech in hopes of meeting with an academic advisor. What was

Oakland computer engineering sophomore Anthony Hamm connects a portion of the roller coaster they are creating at Cass Technical High School in Detroit on August 11. Hamm and fellow students are creating this roller coaster for the STEM Genius program, which tries to inspire children from K-12 to become passionate in STEM degrees. PHOTO: JOSHUA ABRAHAM/THE STATE NEWS

found, however, was slightly different.

The administration offices had the lights turned off, but young voices could be heard.

A boy sat on the stairs listening to music as he watched his sister and her friends practice their color guard routine. A security guard stood at

1979 National Basketball Champions teammates Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Greg Kelser have a chat at the Detroit Golf Club in Detroit on August 11.

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the school’s opposite-side entrance and we were greeted with a smile and introduction. Above his position on the overhead floor was a group of four working on a project for STEM Genius, an organization that focuses on cultivating and nurturing youth interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. They were

combining two model roller coasters, which consisted of hundreds of minuscule pieces, rendering an accurate count impossible.

Among them, was MSU media and information sophomore Khaleed Thorpe, Oakland University computer engineering sophomore Anthony Hamm, 16-year-old Cass Tech senior Alexis Copeland and 17-year-old Cass Tech senior Devin Moses.

After a conversation, I played them an audio snippet of what Johnson said he would tell a high school student who is weighing their college options.

“Do not let anyone define who you can become and what you can do in life,” Johnson said. “They have to be serious and failure is not an option. They cannot fail.”

Hamm and Moses nodded their heads and listened intently to Johnson talk about his athletic achievements and having rich dreams despite growing up poor.

“He is absolutely right. Growing up poor really does not define who you are. It is the decisions that you make,” Hamm said. “Anyone can get out of a bad neighborhood, or anyone can go from a good neighborhood to a bad neighborhood, it is just the decisions that you make as a person.”

Moses said Johnson’s advice was relative because Moses gave up sports in ninth grade to pursue his intellect.

“If you think about all our inner city youth here in the state of Michigan you think about Detroit, Flint, Saginaw, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Benton Harbor, Muskegon and on and on, they have the grades to get into Michigan State, they just don’t have the financial needs,” Johnson said. “And so I think that it’s great that all the alumni have come together (to support them).”

Lural Baltimore, cofounder and Treasurer of MSUBA, said the scholarship application is posted at the end of November and the deadline is normally April 30.

Johnson said he and MSUBA plan to make the golf outing an annual fundraiser.

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Director of African American and African Studies Internal Posting Limited to Tenured Faculty at MSU DUTIES: The College of Arts and Letters invites applications for the Directorship of the Program in African American and African Studies (AAAS), beginning January 1, 2016. The successful candidate must be tenured at the level of Associate Professor or Professor. The Director will oversee the graduate-level AAAS Studies Program and the Undergraduate Specialization. AAAS, now in its 13th year, is an interdisciplinary course of study leading to the Ph.D. and involves faculty and curricula from several colleges.

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It’s been a wild ride for MSU fif th-year senior, walk-on wide receiver AJ Troup, but it’s one he wouldn’t trade for the world.

“It’s been a long (journey),” Troup said. “But I’m happy for every moment of it.”

It’s at this moment Troup shifts his legs. It’s hardly a noticeable movement and he probably did it without thinking, but the movement is just enough to draw someone’s attention to the scar on his left knee — which represents the three ACL surgeries he had within the span of four years.

For Troup, his journey started six years ago when he was a standout wide receiver at Wayzata High School in Plymouth, Minn. It was during that time the then-17-yearold Troup tore his left ACL during his senior year in the 2009 Minnesota high school state football playoffs.

But it didn’t stop there. A slip during a rehab exercise six months later would once again cause Troup to go under the knife.

The injuries dashed Troup’s hopes of earning a Division 1 football scholarship. However, after graduating from high school in 2010, Troup stayed diligent, which eventually led to him walking on to the MSU football program in the spring of 2011.

Throughout the next two years, Troup continued to work hard striving to be his best, and his natural talent cer tainly never went unnoticed.

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a good player.”

Unfortunately for Troup, after a breakout spring in 2013 — one in which he caught a touchdow n in t he spr ing game — Troup would once again tear the same ACL in a summer workout. The injury would mean Troup would have to miss the entirety of the 2013 season, but it didn’t mean Troup’s spirit was crushed.

“I had a great support staff from my teammates, to my coaching staff and family back home that made it a lot easier,” Troup said.

Troup worked hard at getting back to where he was

for the next year, and on the opening night of the 2014 season against Jacksonville State, the 6-foot-2, 218-pound wide receiver caught a 17-yard touchdown pass from MSU quarterback Connor Cook in the first quarter. The Spartans would go on to win the game 45-7.

Now one year later, with MSU’s two leading receivers from 2014 lost to graduation — Tony Lippett and Keith Mumphery — Troup has a very real possibility of being a key player in the No. 6 Spartan football team’s success this year, something that’s a long time coming in the eyes of MSU wide receivers coach Terrence Samuel.

“His story could be totally different,” Samuel said.

“Troup, had he not been injured a couple of years ago, he might have been in the rotation a long time ago ... but a tribute to him, how hard he worked to get back, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen that out of a kid ... and then he comes back faster. I don’t know how he does it.”

Samuel also went on to praise Troup for being the fastest receiver on the team.

That’s not the norm for fifthyear, walk-on wide receiver, much less one with three ACL tears. But for Samuel, it’s Troup’s personality which truly makes him shine.

“I love him a lot,” Samuel said. “Just because of his mentality ... he’s just one of those guys, what he brings into the

position room, he’s just one of those guys that you feel ‘He can’t date my daughter, but I’d let him date somebody else’s daughter.’ But he’s just a wonderful person.”

Teammates also agree Troup has a work ethic and personality that’s unlike any other.

“He’s worked his way up the ladder and obviously fought some injuries with his knees, but he’s going to be one of our leading receivers this year without a doubt,” O’Connor said. “He’s already a leader in the room. He doesn’t have the experience on the field that maybe Macgarrett (Kings) or Aaron (Burbridge) or R.J. (Shelton) have, but he’s a very good leader, he’s all about the team, he’s stuck with Michigan State since he’s been here.

He’s a good guy and he works very hard.”

Even as Troup has perhaps finally ascended to a play maker in MSU’s offense, and even as he goes to work to prepare for MSU’s opening game against Western Michigan, there aren’t any sort of ‘What ifs’ or ‘Why mes’ going through his mind. He wouldn’t have his story any other way.

“It’s kind of a chip on my shoulder in my own different way,” Troup said. “But it’s one that I really truly love, but it’s not a struggle at all. It’s something that I embrace and it’s something that I hold dear to my heart really, is being a walk-on and competing every day and trying to earn everything I get.”

Senior wide receiver AJ Troup runs a route next to the Duffy Daugherty Football Building on Aug. 8. PHOTO: JOSHUA ABRAHAM